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I am a pretty novice user and have just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my six year-old laptop as a dual boot with Windows. I installed with the simple Windows Installer and haven't done any major adjustments to Ubuntu other than to install the beta of Google Music Uploader for Ubuntu.

I just recently tried to use get Wine so I can run EAC (Exact Audio Copy). However, whenever I run the command in the terminal to get Wine 1.5, I errors.

For example, if I out in this command: "sudo apt-get install wine"

I get this: 

"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine : Depends: wine1.5 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

When I input this "sudo apt-get install wine1.5" I get this:

"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.5 : Depends: wine1.5-i386 (= 1.5.25-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
           Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer but it is not going to be installed or
                       kde-runtime but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-droid but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-horai-umefont but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-unfonts-core but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: winbind but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

Before this I tried the same with Wine1.4. Same error messages.

Any ideas? I'm pretty new to Ubuntu and the open-source world, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Mostafa Shahverdy
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Try following the instructions here.   They are pretty easy to follow.

Hope this helps!

Stephen
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First check your repositories and give us if possible. If everything was ok then sudo apt-get update may fix this. Else try to install it from ppa:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
Mostafa Shahverdy
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